It’s decision time… time to tuck our gardens in for winter, or keep them growing with season extending techniques. What will you do? Have a fall garden that you’re proud of? I want to hear about it! Contact Gillian with your fall garden stories. For...

Gaining Ground Farm – May 10th For our May CRAFT tour, we had our first visit to Gaining Ground Farm! Anne and Aaron Grier and their apprentice crew grow a slew of annual produce, graze a happy herd of 25+ Red Devon beef cattle, and one hundred chickens on...

Dear Tom – How do you still have tomatoes in the fall? My plants went down with late blight. — Frustrated Frustrated – For years the only reliable organic solution to late blight (Phytophthora infestans) was spraying copper and growing in a greenhouse or...

Dear Ruth, I heard that the time to plant garlic is in the fall. If that’s true, how do I plant it? Roger Asheville, NC Dear Roger, I planted a number of different garlic cultivars last fall. It was quite a thrill to harvest three different kinds of garlic, and...

Last month, Tom answered a question on fall sowing schedules, and this month we are offering an elaboration on this topic to include more detail, plus season extension resources. Happy winter growing! Q – What is the best way to schedule late fall and winter...